The Principles of Graduate Study

• Graduate coursework is more creative.
• Graduate coursework is more self-directed.
• Graduate coursework is more rigorous.
• Graduate coursework is more attentive to epistemological issues.
• Graduate coursework is more attentive to research.
• Graduate coursework is more a community of learners, rather than merely a teacher-student relationship.
• Graduate students give careful consideration to research, information, and bibliographic references.
• Graduate learning is not just remembering information, it is constructing knowledge.

Graduate professors are actively engaged in research and learning.